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title: Proverbs 4:10 (JPS 1917) — Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life sh… · tree and pragmatics
description: Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many. Who acts: you, years, my. Proverbs 4:10 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 4:10 · JPS 1917

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Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

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**Who acts:** you, years, my · **What happens:** hear, receive, be, say · **To what, where:** sayings · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is Proverbs 4:10 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, years, my), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PRO:100
# text = Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.
1	Hear	hear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	O	o	INTJ	UH	_	5	discourse	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	vocative	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sayings	saying	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: request
- voice: character
- polarity: neg
- teacher: changed act=request

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | my son *vocative* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **receive** | infinitive | you *not said here* | my sayings |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent saying=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | shall | the years of thy life |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** |  | my |  |  |  |  |  | nom saying «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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שְׁמַ֣ע בְּ֭נִי וְקַ֣ח אֲמָרָ֑י וְיִרְבּ֥וּ לְ֝ךָ֗ שְׁנ֣וֹת חַיִּֽים׃

[Proverbs 4:10: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.4.10/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:100` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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